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Anni-Frid Lyngstad
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist
Anni-Frid Lyngstad, usually called Frida, was born in 1945 in a village in the north of Norway. Her mother was Norwegian, her father a German soldier. Fearing reprisals, the family left for Sweden, where Frida, after the early death of her mother, was raised by her grandmother in Torshälla. Her grandmother sang her old Norwegian songs, and that was where her love of music began.
Music and breakthrough
At thirteen she was already singing in a dance orchestra, sometimes five hours a night. Later she sang jazz with a big band, with Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy Lee as her examples. In 1967 she won an EMI talent contest and was allowed to sing on Swedish television the same evening. In 1969 she met Benny Andersson at the Swedish song contest. He produced her first album, Frida (1971).
Influence
ABBA grew out of her relationship with Andersson and her friendship with Björn Ulvaeus and Agnetha Fältskog. Frida was one of the two female singers; her warm, somewhat darker voice formed a fine contrast with Fältskog's clear voice. Together they gave the ABBA hits their characteristic harmonies. After ABBA she made the English-language solo album Something's Going On (1982), and later Swedish-language records such as Djupa andetag (1996), before withdrawing from music. Her career shows how ABBA emerged from the Swedish dance band and schlager world.
Listening
Discography
Studio albums
- 1971Frida
- 1975Frida ensam
- 1982Something’s Going On
- 1984Shine
- 1996Djupa andetag
In School of Rock
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Mentioned in other articles
- Waterloo Song
In the years that followed they made hit after hit in Stockholm, with a sound that worked in any language, sung by Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad.